Word: hiltonization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...saying, the junior guru from Washington led the last platoon of the Nov. 27 antiwar protest march into Washington's Harrington Hotel. Later they found comfort in a plush $60-a-day suite in the Statler Hilton. In such surroundings, sprawled on couches and carpet, they held the first coeducational "soul session." One young convert, recalling with distaste an abrasive cry from some demonstrators as they marched around the White House-"Hey, hey, L.B.J., how many people did you kill today?"-suggested that the soul protester should take the long-suffering view of Lyndon's problems. Said...
...successful was the 96-hour couch-in that the Soulniks decided to hold a press conference to spread the lovin' word. They explained that the Hilton setting, if decidedly unspiritual, was essential to the cause. Said one: "You've got to go to a swank downtown hotel, right down in the nittygritty groove, man, to get the press to come...
...Fifth Avenue jeweler credited the sale of a $6,500 brooch to candlelight. "It does give such an attractive glow to diamonds," he purred. At Irishman Jim Downey's, a celebrated steak house, the light came from Jewish yahrzeit candles, normally used to commemorate the dead. The New York Hilton used 30,000 candles during the long night. So great was the demand that Ajello's candle shop in midtown sold fancy bayberry models at $7.50 a pair?though there were no takers for the 90-lb., hand-dipped model for $150. To make the occasion complete, Mrs. Anthony Ajello...
...Club announced that they are discussing "the possibility of developing a closer relationship." The relationship -whether worked through merger or outright purchase-is clearly aimed at stepping up Chase Manhattan's competition with First National City Bank, the second largest U.S. bank, which bought up half of Hilton's Carte Blanche in September. This week, after a two-month advertising barrage, Pittsburgh's two largest banks-the Mellon National and the Pittsburgh National-will expand their longtime competition to a new dimension by bringing out their own credit cards...
...million on everything from lettered T shirts ("Long live the O.A.U.!") to his celebrated "Project 600," the conference-headquarters complex itself. Dominating it all was a twelve-story structure built to Nkrumah's taste-the luxurious bulletproof, bomb-resistant VIP hotel, known to local wags as "the Maginot Hilton." Marveling at the spacious conference room, Kwame's official weekly Spark was awestruck. "It is in this room that the fate of Africa is to be decided," it said. "It is here that Africa, mourning for her enslaved children still under oppression, will look for comfort...